Top 100 It Work Quotes
#1. Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work - work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it.
Ronald Reagan
#2. I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
Isaiah Thomas
#3. I have no problem having any actor from anywhere play a role. I'm excited for any actor that gets a job, I truly am. Even if it's a role that I'm up for and I don't get it, I never begrudge any actor having it work out for them.
William Fichtner
#4. I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.
Gotye
#5. But - "
"But what? You love him, and he loves you, and you live in the most romantic city in the world."
I shake my head. "It's not that simple."
"Then let me put it another way. A gorgeous boy is in love with you, and you're not even gonna try to make it work?
Stephanie Perkins
#6. The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.
Thomas Brooks
#7. It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.
Luis Gerardo Mendez
#8. When you're more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
Sheryl Sandberg
#9. There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.
Nancy Kassebaum
#10. We were scared. I guess when you're in your twenties, that's how it is. You've got an adult body, but you're trying to make it work with a kid's emotions. With Marilyn and me, it was worse. Our kid emotions didn't even work. We'd been treated too poorly.
Tony Curtis
#11. It might have been introduced slowly over the course of the years as you recall this memory over and over. So that was a very cool but complex idea that we thought about representing in the film but could not find a way to make it work.
Pete Docter
#12. School is not easy for kids and football wasn't easy for me ... but if it's something you truly believe in, it's something you've got to fight for and be willing to do what you need to do make it work.
Emmitt Smith
#13. I trust the [series] writers when I'm filming, because it's interesting for me to go in every week and see what's going to happen, and the challenge for me as the actor is to make it work.
John Barrowman
#14. But Cora said all people bury what it is they fear
so it cannot hurt them. So it is kept from them, locked up in the earth or in the sea.
Does it work? I asked her. Burying a feared thing?
She pursed her lips. Maybe. If it done justly, and with an honest, hopeful heart ...
Susan Fletcher
#15. Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.
Scott Cohen
#16. The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.
Richard Bach
#17. I wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those people.
Rob Roberge
#18. The boring side of business is what makes it work.
Alan Sugar
#19. At festivals you kind of have to play the game a bit and you have to play a lot of the big bangers but it's to me it's extra gratifying to be able to play the non-bangers and make it work. Because that's still the craft of the DJ, I think.
A-Trak
#20. We'll make it work, because two people who are sincerely in love can always overcome obstacles no matter what they are.
V.C. Andrews
#21. Of course it hurts, it's a spanking. How else would it work?
Breanna Hayse
#22. In a relationship that is successful, communication has to be totally open and honest, without judgement or anger. and before you end a relationship that is very important to you, you have to be able to say to yourself that you seeked every avenue to make it work.
Anonymous
#23. I still love coming into work everyday after so many years working as an actress. I've been working more or less continuously and I find I have to really want to do the project to make it work because you have to put such an enormous amount of effort into it.
Amanda Burton
#24. Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.
Kim Novak
#25. The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.
James E. Faust
#26. A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work.
Annie Sprinkle
#27. When you become a parent you're endlessly obsessed with chatting to other moms and learning how they make it work - keep all the balls in the air if you like - because we all want to know how to be the best mom that we possibly can be.
Tess Daly
#28. No matter what system the magician chooses, in order to make it work most effectively he or she must first become attuned to that system's particular way of viewing of the universe.
Lon Milo DuQuette
#29. There are no requirements when you're using a particular genre. It's not like the genre is your boss and you have to do what it says. You can make use of the genre any way you want to, as long as you can make it work.
Charlie Jane Anders
#30. You have to take a plan that might work and make it work
Wesley Clark
#31. I could always throw the ball pretty well and I worked pretty hard at learning how to play the game. But I didn't consider it work as a kid, since I just loved playing baseball.
Jim Abbott
#32. If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
Peter Fonda
#33. The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.
Dean Acheson
#34. I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.
Thomas Mullen
#35. If we could make it work will you give us a chance?
Brey King
#36. You have to be willing to give 100 percent with zero expectation of receiving anything in return," he said. "Only when you're willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work. Otherwise, a relationship left to chance will always be vulnerable to disaster.
Darren Hardy
#37. When two people really care about each other, they will always look for a way to make it work, no matter how hard it is.
Bharat
#38. How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?
Virginia Woolf
#39. I've always been a guy who's pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.
Rick Derringer
#40. My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.
Peter Higgs
#41. When I woke up I reminded myself that freedom is never free. You have to fight for it. Work for it and make sure you are able to handle it. Now
Toni Morrison
#42. Commitment, I finally said. Both people have to be committed. I think if two people are committed to the marriage, if they really want to make it work, then they'll find a way to do it. No matter what happens in life.
Nicholas Sparks
#43. I shall always be depressed," Beckett concluded, "but what comforts me is the realization that I can now accept this dark side as the commanding side of my personality. In accepting it, I will make it work for me.
Mason Currey
#44. Maybe some of the masters really believed they could make it work, but I think what they really wanted wasn't to do it themselves but for somebody else to have made it real and for them to have been born there.
Jo Walton
#45. I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.
Shirley Jackson
#46. When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!
Bela Fleck
#47. I need to not be scared of not having someone there to back me up. I just need to tackle things on my own. I feel like I have the power in me to make it work.
Cher Lloyd
#48. I always come back around. I make it work.
Cat Zingano
#49. I hate the word universal, because I don't know exactly what it means. The question is, does it work for the client? Travelers was a diversified, financial conglomerate that did very well. The businesses had nothing to do with each other.
Jamie Dimon
#50. I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it, and have it work as perfectly as it did ... I sleep clearly every night.
Paul Tibbets
#51. Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
Jack Nicklaus
#53. We need diversity in our population to make it work.
Phil Keoghan
#54. If your life turns out to be good and you have a tremendous amount of luck in your life, it's a good thing to turn around and make it work for others.
Morgan Freeman
#55. Real love is fighting like hell to hold on to every moment you have with her. It's making a life together and making it work no matter what happens.
Peter Burke
#56. You just pick someone who has your back and wants the same things as you do, and then you make it work.
Claire Cook
#57. I'm more proud of the good rounds I've played while hitting the ball badly than of the great rounds while hitting the ball well. I understand my swing well enough to get myself through a tournament and win it. I've made it work.
Jack Nicklaus
#58. The more power you give your child in any discipline process, the more likely he will be to be able to make it work positively for himself.
Hilary Flower
#59. There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#60. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something.
Joan Cusack
#61. It's easy to dream about it ... Much harder to execute it ... Work!
Gary Vaynerchuk
#62. Think of a Foundational tour as a form of marriage - a long-term relationship that both parties anticipate will be permanent, in which both parties assume a moral obligation to try hard to make it work before ending the relationship.
Reid Hoffman
#63. An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
William Feather
#64. The thrill in fashion for me is taking a risk and daring myself to make it work. Even when I go shopping, I always buy something twisted and I know I'm going to have to figure out somehow to pull it off and make it my own.
Rihanna
#65. When I see friends of mine break up and they're like, "Oh, we still really love each other, but we just couldn't make it work," I don't get that. I don't understand what that means. Make it work.
Torquil Campbell
#66. A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
Martin Gardner
#67. Rachel, you summon demons. You're good at it. Get over it, then find a way to make it work for you. It's not going to go away.
Kim Harrison
#68. Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.
Tony Robbins
#69. One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
Salman Rushdie
#70. In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.
Eva Longoria
#71. What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?
Carolyn Wells
#72. I did not have a computer until recently. I'm not really a computer person; I'm really hands-on. I can't make it work if it's all behind the black curtain. It doesn't interest me. I want to see what's actually happening back there.
Scoot McNairy
#73. Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work
Michael Bloomberg
#74. You have made me give up the hair Father gave me, the eyes Mother left me, the Color I was born to, so I will keep the name they granted me, and you can make it work.
Pierce Brown
#75. Gary Ross is amazing. He's just - he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also; he just makes it work. He really does. He's trying different things and making everything look amazing.
Liam Hemsworth
#76. everyone knows how to lose weight - it's just a matter of wanting it
badly enough to make it work
Courtney Rubin
#77. I just wanted to do hair in the movies and in Hollywood, and made it work.
Howard Berger
#78. Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.
Elon Musk
#79. There are good and bad times in a relationship. You start to understand more about how a relationship can go awry when two people spend too much time together. They tend to overlook all of the red flags that pop up early because they want to make it work and they want to believe it's right.
Michael Ealy
#80. Rich people ... take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set "It will work because I'll make it work."
T. Harv Eker
#81. The secret of making something work in your lives is first of all, the deep desire to make it work; then the faith and belief that it can work; then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
Eileen Caddy
#82. It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
Hanif Kureishi
#83. I want to ask you to place a significant seed in God's soil and see it work for you. Just as a special sacrifice was offered on the Day of Atonement, let me ask you to bring a very special offering.
Benny Hinn
#84. I just feel we are extremely lucky that when we wake up, we get to go to work and do something we love. Honestly, we can't call it work. We're living the dream, really. If you start thinking about the dangers too much, it's time to stop.
Allan McNish
#85. Yes, he was leaving, but he'd told her repeatedly that they would find a way to make it work. and yes, it was true that they didn't know each other well, but considering the short time they'd been together, he'd learned enough to know that he could love her forever. all they needed was a chance.
Nicholas Sparks
#86. I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.
John Zorn
#87. 'Rick' never really fit. I tried for 18 years to make it work, and no one wanted to call me Rick. It should always have been Ricky. That's what it always should have been, so I'm going back to it.
Ricky Schroder
#88. I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life ... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.
Gerard Depardieu
#89. The best DJs in the world know how to pull in music from all over the place and make it work as a cohesive whole.
David Bowie
#90. A guy walks into a bar, orders a drink, sees a girl that catches his eye. Asks her if she wants another, they fall for each other and end up lovers. They laugh, cry, hold on tight and make it work for a little while, then one night her taillights fade out into the dark. And a guy walks into a bar
Tyler Farr
#91. I would say take any work you can get. Don't pass on something if it's a commercial. Take it. Work really does lead to other work. Especially if you're just starting out, work begets work.
Allison Jones
#92. The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.
Levon Helm
#93. Google or other search engines are examples of AI, and relatively simple AI, but they're still AI. That plus an awful lot of hardware to make it work fast enough.
Stuart J. Russell
#94. The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.
Sander Levin
#95. What is 'leveling' and how does it work?
Felicia Day
#96. We have swallowed technology and are struggling to avoid the shackles that make it work: rules and laws.
Seth Kantner
#97. Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
Ben Silbermann
#98. Take what you have learned, practise it, adapt it as necessary, and make it work for you.
Lorraine Clissold
#99. The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.
Ted Williams
#100. This is the real secret of life
to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Alan W. Watts
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